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The Influences In Edgar Allan Poe's Life

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Edgar Allan Poe

Dark… Melancholy…Gothic… Words often used to described Poe’s work. From being as poor as dirt to his father abandoning his mother and him then soon after his mother died leaving him as an orphan at the age of three, this influenced his writing. Born in Boston Massachusetts, January 19th, 1809. Edgar Allan Poe’s parents were both actors that worked at Mr.Placides Theater Company. When Poe was two his father abandoned him and his mother Elizabeth. Not soon after his mother died of tuberculosis causing him and his brother to be orphans. Separated from his siblings a couple named John and Frances adopts him. Him and his adoptive family moves to New England in 1815 but sooner returns to America in 1820. When Edgar …show more content…

Ten years after he moved back to Richmond, Virginia and found out his childhood sweetheart was married. He soon married his first cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm when she was thirteen. Some many thought it was a strange and skeptical relationship but he reached the peak of his writing career while she was still alive. He had a downfall when she died and went into a depression state in 1847. After eleven years of being married, they never had any children together. Edgar Allan Poe had many jobs. He struggled to keep one. At times they would last 2 months or two years and he’d move on and find a different one. He did a lot with magazines at one point he applied to be a school teacher but it was denied. In 1836 Edgar Allan Poe became an editor at Thomas W. White Southern Library but a year later in 1837 he was no longer editing it. Finding jobs wasn’t hard for him. During the time he wasn’t employed he wrote poems and entered in contests. July 1831 he submitted several of his stories in a contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. (knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/) Although he didn’t win first the contest they published five of this stories without identifying the author later on. Two years later in October of 1833, he won 50 dollars from a contest by Saturday Visitor for entering his poem “Ms. Found a bottle” In 1840 Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the Grotesque and Arabesque which …show more content…

He was a failed a baptist minister who turned into an editor. Edgar Allen Poe viewed Griswold as a literally potential writer. Griswold thought he was just a dirty southerner. But he already had the reputation of a fearless and unbiased critic. Even though the both of them didn’t like each other very much they still had a professional relationship. Poe described Griswold as “...not one a polished prose-writer, but a poet of no ordinary powers” (ea poe.org) They were working there together but Poe giving up his editor chair while Griswold stayed. Poe wrote a letter to Daniel Bryan on September 12th of 1842 confessing how he was growing to dislike Griswold. “He [Graham] is not especially pleased with Griswold- nor is anyone else, with the exception of the Rev. gentleman himself, who has gotten himself into quite a hornet's nest by his “Poets & Poetry”... He is a pretty fellow to set himself up as an honest judge or even a capable one. (eapoe.org) Edgar Allan Poe thought Griswold was slacking as an editor there and Griswold seemed to gloat at the lack of editorial ethics. (eapoe.org) As a writer, you will have a lot of people criticize you, your work and everything you did. Just being a human in general you will receive a lot of positive and negative feedback from others. Least to say you would have to move past all the rude comments and slurs people would put on your name. Overcome it. That’s what Edgar Allan Poe did. People would

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They met in 1841 when Griswold wanted to publish an anthology, which is a collection of stories, poems, books, etc. His work is critiqued by Poe before he publishes it, which only led Griswold leaving angry and publishing the collection anyway. Feeling spiteful, Poe wrote a harsh review and thus, sparking up the rivalry between the two. Griswold wanted to publicly shame Poe by creating an educated rumor that he was a drunk, and many of his aspirations were under the influence. Although this could have been true, there was no hard evidence to support it (Defamation).

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Edgar was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the year of 1809. Edgar's mother perished when he was only two years old, by this time, his father had deserted him. Between the ages of 6 and 11, he was granted to go to boarding school in England. After, he turned 18, Poe issued a volume of poems and drafted in the army for 2 years. Poe's predicaments didn't leave during his childhood and continued to haunt him into his adult life.

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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Fore I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. To most people these days, he’s considered to be the person who wrote about talking Ravens and Death. Granted he did write about those things, but Edgar Allan Poe was much much more than just that. Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809.

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1809, Edgar Allan Poe led an eventful yet brief life in which he mastered the art of morbid writing. His first work, Tamerlane and Other Poems, came at the age of eighteen, but his writing eventually developed into the refined writing style that enabled him to succeed with his most famous work, The Raven. However, Poe’s successful writing career arose from a melancholy life involving the loss of parental figures, financial issues and even a tragic love life.

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Around the year 1845, an infamous literary writer named Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poetry piece deemed, "The Raven." This piece was a staple in Poe's career, allowing him to grow becoming one of the most preferred poets due to "The Raven" garnering him so much popularity. On October 9th, 1849, tragically Poe (at the time) mysteriously died. No one was seen around him at the time nor spoke to him; this was a mystery that no one could solve easily. As time passed, his death continued to be a mystery.

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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is an all-around well known American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe was most known for his poetry, short stories, and tales of horror and mystery. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and started writing at the age of 18. In 1836 he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.

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Found in a Bottle’ won a (fifty dollar) cash prize for best story in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter.” Poe was still not earning enough income, and Allan’s death in 1834 did not leave him anything. The next year, he accepted an editorship at The Southern Literary in Richmond and he brought his aunt and cousin along with him. Poetry Foundation states,“While Poe’s writings gained attention in the late 1830s and early 1840s, the profits from his work remained meager, and he supported himself by editing Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and Graham’s Magazine in Philadelphia and the Broadway Journal in New York City.” He had to edit magazines to earn enough money to live. "

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Therefore to make a living Poe took up other occupations such as a critic and an editorial position. Even though he worked these jobs his passion was for writing. He wrote both poems and short stories. Some examples are ¨The Haunted Palace,¨ a gloomy almost depressing poem that was published in 1839,¨The Raven¨ with its mysterious style and personification which was published in 1845,¨Anabell Lee,¨ a lovefelt poem in remembrance of Poe's wife virginia,¨Eldorado,¨ a bold poem that symbolizes the passage of time and was published in 1849, and ¨The Bells¨ which also symbolizes the passage of time and was published in 1849. Some examples of his short stories would be ¨The Fall of The House of Usher,¨ a disturbing and suspenseful poem that was published in 1839, ¨The Murders In The Rue Morgue,¨ the first crime story it had a mysterious style and was published in 1841, and

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Edgar Allan Poe’s stories were very graphic, usually ending in the death of a main character. In 1847, Poe’s Wife Virginia died, Leaving him overcome with Grief. He continued to write but struggled financially and had health issues. The final days of the poets life were quite mysterious, leaving Richmond VA on September 27th, 1849 he was planning to travel to Philadelphia. Poe was found in distress in Baltimore on October 3rd, 1849, and was taken to Washington College Hospital and later died on October 7th, 1849, from “Congestion of the Brain”, but it was more likely that he died from his abuse of alcohol.

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Poe’s real parents were both traveling actors, and at the time he was born they were in Boston, but “within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia.” By the time that Edgar Allan Poe was three years old he moved from Boston, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia, and he did have not much memory Joyce 2 of his biological parents because of how young he was when they died. Edgar Allan Poe was never formally adopted into John Allan family despite even though his wife wanted to adopt Edgar into the family. When Edgar was younger he was put into a military school, but was kick out as a cadet because of his behavior. John Allan wanted Edgar to become a businessman, and a gentleman from Virginia, but “Poe

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The great Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in January of 1809. Unfortunately, both his parents died when Edgar was young. He was forced into

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Poe 's life had various hardships that inspired his work. Pursuers can obviously observe the association with Poe and the other individuals throughout his life to the characters in his words and stories. Huge numbers of Poe 's works may appear to be typical to begin with, yet quite often end in disaster, primarily as his life did. Poe acted more as a literary motivation for others. He did not seek any artistic works for motivation, instead he acted more from his creative ability and the interactions he experienced.

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In 1840, though, Edgar had finally saved up enough money to publish his first book, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Edgar planned on this book being a huge success, yet people ended up thinking that Poe was on drugs because of the odd stories in the book. Edgar later realized that he was more appreciated for his critiques in magazines than his books of his own stories. His critiques were quite harsh and made many writers of the time start to hate Edgar, like the writer Griswold for example. Poe was very rude in Griswold’s review that he swore that he would get revenge on Poe.

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Poe faced a gambling addiction in his life that caused him to declare bankruptcy. This as well as other tribulations in his life such as alcoholism, depression, and the loss of many of his loved ones contributed to significant themes in his work and in the Dark Romanticism movement. Poe’s writing career was influenced by Charles Dickens. Dickens inspired him to write one his most famous short stories, “The Raven” in January 1845. Another one of his most influential stories is “The Tell-Tale Heart”, written in January 1843.

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However, Edgar Allan Poe’s famous morose outlook on the world did not come out of thin air. In fact, his life was riddled with disasters and mishappenings. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, to two professional actors who tragically died before he reached three. He excelled academically, and his life seemed to be going up, but was kicked out of his university due to some gambling debts, so he enlisted in the army.

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